WITH OUT the shelter of his love
February 26, 2008- March 22, 2008
Reception: February 28, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
511 W 25th St
SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery presents “WITH OUT the shelter of his love,” an
exhibition of
Anne Q. McKeown’s new series of paintings.
McKeown’s new paintings rely on intuition and planned conceptual processes
while maintaining an awareness of perceptual information. Grids and systems are
developed from current information and imagery from the canon of art history.
The elements in the paintings are distilled from observation of social orders and
power structures. With these studied sources the work is formed with chance; a
hiding and altering of the work is the method of construction as it moves
toward its being.
While the basis of the work is expressive, the paint is charted mechanically.
Residual, traced marks reveal a plotting that nods to the world of science, to
trial, error, and inquiry. The work appears to be analytical, not revealing the
expressionism fueling its making. Color is also an important voice in the paintings
for it communicates the tones and sounds that are filling the work.
The speed and overflow of information in the 21st Century set a chaotic world
stage in the paintings and rejects the sensibility of order. Crowding marks and
shapes investigate the uneasy sense of the shifting world as systems and beliefs
shred and burst into new compilations. There are bits of the familiar but those
are hints and allusions. McKeown is not looking to create an order, rather to
record a moment of being.
Anne Q. McKeown lives and works in Freehold, New Jersey. She is also the
Master Papermaker at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at the Mason
Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. This is
her first solo show at
SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery.
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